Then, here and there a leaf stood out, palely distinct, upon the thick frondage of the apple-tree whose nearest branches crowded the roof of the porch below her window.
Amid all this excitement, which had some effect even upon Mistress Mehitable, antagonistic though she was to it, the palely brilliant Connecticut spring rushed over the land with promise.
The two hideous heads came close to the sides of the conning-tower; the huge, palely luminous eyes looked in upon them.
A light shone palely in the long windows at their back.
Beyond the near hills the lilac glitter of the Ellerton lights sprang palely up on the blue dusk.
Within the hollow over the stone barrier lies Nansen's Lake, even more frigid in its ice-sheath, more palely green in the little patch of water which the sun has laid bare.
Below, within the sombre circle of the pines, is the lake, palely fair as a white sea shell or a milk opal whose latent colours never quite shine forth from its cloudy depths.
Then a flat coast with rolling country stretched away behind, with many woods shining palely green, and looking newly washed as the morning sun sucked the night dews from the leaves.
They could see the breakers ahead of them flashing palely white in the starlight, and hear the bullers crying aloud to each other along the shore.
The wall, as they came around the corner of the house, shone palely here and there where a white surface glinted vaguely through the shadows.
Before him in the tiny living-room of the ramshackle store building a kerosene lamp was burning palely and lying upon an old sofa, face down, shaken with sobs was Terry.
In the far distance the finest spire in the world soared into palely blue skies.
THE twilight droops across the day, I watch her portrait on the wallPalely recede into the grey That palely comes and covers all.
With a muttered imprecation he flung himself into the trail and walked toward the courtyard where a light shone palely from Kayak Bill's window.
The sound of drums and dancing came up from the Village as he crossed the dim courtyard toward the light that shone palely from Silvertip's window.
The mist, palely opalescent, drives past her out of nothing into nowhere.
The scent of smoke grew strong in nostril and throat; the pale tint became palely reddish.
Oh what can ail thee Knight at arms Alone and palely loitering?
And this is why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering; Though the sedge is withered from the Lake And no birds sing.
Yet, even in his revulsion, he thrilled to the sweetness of her luring eyes, glinting at him palely through the shadows.
When he turned, the Major had not moved a muscle; he was sitting as he had left him, erect and palely smiling.
And this is why I sojourn here Alone andpalely loitering, Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?
The old woman and the little girl lifted their heads, threw them back, and looked up long into the sky, purely, palely high above them.
But out in the dusky hail, the white stairs stood palely motioning up.
Its one dim window looked out on that melancholy sight, a New York backyard, and the gray and eerie dusk stole palely in, and the wild spring wind rattled the rickety casement.
So the white cross remained gleaming palely in the spectral moonlight, and casting its solemn shadow over the grave in the sunshine.
The Keeper turned--I saw its palely lustrous blue metallic back.
The shape of a great T, glimmering with a faint and limpid violet phosphorescence, it might have been, in shape and size, the palely shining shadow of the Keeper.
The valley filled with a palely shimmering radiance which dropped like veils upon it, hiding all within it.
Thousands of palely azure, metal moons they soared; warrior moons charging in meteor rush and streaming with fluttering battle pennons of violet flame.
Across the floor toward the Cones glided a palely lustrous sphere.
The quarter of the sky above the ridge was coldly violet, palely luminous.
She had not quitted it for twenty-four hours, and she came now into the light and air like a form emerging from Hades, very palely smiling, with the grey of the underworld, its breath and its terror still about her.
It broke curiously, palely light for an instant, then obscured by thick clouds, then faint light again.
LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI John Keats Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering?
And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.
She smiled palelyat Benton, spoke of Yulun, wished him happiness.
The President joined his finger tips and stared palelyinto space.
Sky and water were blank and still, and the ghostly trees stood tall, reflectedpalely in the translucent tide.
Every muscle of his body was strung taut for an instantaneous recoil, in case he should see before him two palely flaming eyes, afloat, as it were, upon the darkness of the interior.
He expected to see the beast's eyespalely glaring at him from some near ambush.
Thin fluttering streamers Of breeze lash through the swaying boughs, Palely expectant The earth receives the slanting rain.
Palely the dawn Leaves me facing timidly Old gardens sunken: And in the gardens is water.
The night was palely brilliant; my eyes could penetrate into the detailed depths of the oaks across the pond; I could see the pebbles on the path, the shadow of a chimney-stack over the bathing-stage.
Cars were returning from suppers and the theatres; the glare of their headlights played palely about the upper part of his window-frame.
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